Rotamanual

A Rotamanual is the log book of a Rotanotary .

The Rotanotary entered into the Rotamanual all processes that had to do with the proceedings that were pending before the auditor causarum sacri palatii , the Rotar judge , with whom he worked, and which the latter had assigned him to process. The entries were made chronologically, not in the factual context of the respective causa . However, a notary could compile a compilation of all documents pertaining to a particular process, which were then handed over to a party to the litigation and are therefore not preserved in the Red Archives. No judgments were recorded in the manual.

In the archives of the Sacra Romana Rota , the series begins Manualia with the year 1464 to 1517, the year of Luther's theses , 113 volumes have survived. For the years from 1433 to 1439, three manuals have been preserved that were created by notaries of the court established by the Basel Council in 1432 based on the model of the Roman Rota.

literature

Hermann Hoberg : The record books of the Rotanotare from 1464 to 1517. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History , Canon Department. Vol. 39, 1953, pp. 177-227 ( digitized version )
Erich Meuthen : Rota and Rotamanuals of the Basel Council. With notes about the Rotanotary Johannes Wydenroyd from Cologne. In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.) Roman Curia. Church finances. Vatican Archives. Studies in honor of Hermann Hoberg (= Miscellanea Historiae Pontificiae. Vol. 46). Univ. Gregoriana Ed., Rome 1979, pp. 473-518
Hans-Jörg Gilomen ( edit .): The Rotamanualien of the Basel Council. List of legal cases dealt with in the manuscripts of the Basel University Library. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1998 Review of Per Ingesman in sources and research from Italian archives and libraries . Vol. 80, 2000, pp. 745-746 digitized

Gero Dolezalek : Jurisprudence of the Sacra Romana Rota, with special reference to the Rotamanualien of the Basel Council. In: Martin Bertram (ed.): Stagnation or advanced training? Aspects of general canon law in the 14th and 15th centuries (= library of the German Historical Institute in Rome. Vol. 108). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-484-82108-6 , pp. 133–157

Web links

Markus Wesche: Concilium Basileense - Council of Basel 1431–1439 (historical sources of the German Middle Ages, version August 2010), p. 5 (online at doczz.net and yumpu.com ; former offer at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ( Memento from 27. June 2018 in the Internet Archive ))

Remarks

↑ A Rotary judge had four notaries, one of whom he could appoint himself, the others were appointed by the Pope, the Vice Chancellor and the camerar.
↑ Since 1927 as a deposit in the Vatican Archives , cf. Karl August Fink : The Vatican Archives. Introduction to the holdings and their exploration. 2nd, increased edition. Rom 1951, pp. 122-124; Hoberg, protocol books p. 180

[1] A Rotary judge had four notaries, one of whom he could appoint himself, the others were appointed by the Pope, the Vice Chancellor and the camerar.

[2] Since 1927 as a deposit in the Vatican Archives , cf. Karl August Fink : The Vatican Archives. Introduction to the holdings and their exploration. 2nd, increased edition. Rom 1951, pp. 122-124; Hoberg, protocol books p. 180